Kythas wrote:Cheaper than Dirt's facebook page has this announcement:
"Cheaper than Dirt! has temporarily suspended online sales of firearms.
As a long time supporter of the Second Amendment, Chapter than Dirt! will continue to promote the safe and responsible use of firearms by law abiding customers. During this temporary suspension, we will review our policies and procedures."
Yeah, I won't be shopping there anymore.
Maybe I'll offer them some dirt for a new AR...
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
Kythas wrote:Cheaper than Dirt's facebook page has this announcement:
"Cheaper than Dirt! has temporarily suspended online sales of firearms.
As a long time supporter of the Second Amendment, Chapter than Dirt! will continue to promote the safe and responsible use of firearms by law abiding customers. During this temporary suspension, we will review our policies and procedures."
Yeah, I won't be shopping there anymore.
Well, I was in the store in McKinney this morning, and they were doing a booming business. They had partitioned off a corner of the store to process firearms paperwork, with the line snaking back along the isle and around the (inside) corner. And the rest of the store was packed, too.
Range Rule: "The front gate lock is not an acceptable target." Never Forget.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison
The fact that she is complimenting Dicks for their actions proves emphatically beyond any doubt whatsover that such actions by any busines illustrates that they are tools.
Anygunanywhere
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"When democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote." Mike Vanderboegh
"The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." – Ayn Rand
I completely understand and applaud them for pulling the ARs off the shelves from the stores nearby the tragedy. That seems totally reasonable and respectful
That seems like a knee jerk reaction and perhaps an implicit admission of 'guilt by association'. Or perhaps they're just stockpiling them in the store room in hopes of selling them at 2.5x the price if an AWB is passed.
I got a pretty good deal on surplus ammo yesterday before the frenzy. I completed the transaction and received a confirmation email. In that email, there was a note that the ammo is on back-order. I've checked my account and it shows that the payment has been processed. The website shows the package shipping date is scheduled for 1/22/2013. I'm curious whether my order will be cancelled between now and then because the importer caves.
U R Noodle
CHL since 1/26/2012 - 41 days mailbox to mailbox
I completely understand and applaud them for pulling the ARs off the shelves from the stores nearby the tragedy. That seems totally reasonable and respectful. I don't quite get the national ban on the AR sales though. It seems right now is when a lot of people are going to want to buy one (before the ban hammer drops). They should get rid of their inventory before they get banned.
I think it's cowardly and gutless, and provides the left with moral support in that they can now say, see, even gun dealers admit that not selling semi-automatic weapons is reasonable and responsible. IOW, they're providing moral and material support to the enemy --which in a different context, would be treason. It's certainly treasonous to the cause of gun ownership.
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I've been to a Dick's to see what they carry once and it wasn't much of what I was interested in. It looks like I have another reason not to go back.
Good to know that the local oldie McBrides in Austin is booming in sales of evil black rifles. I rarely go there, as chance would have it I was right next to it for other reasons yesterday. Went in to see what they would offer for a Ruger 22 pistol and it was a mad house. Long wait for any ones attention & 45 min wait in the AR line! So many people packed in there we're talking fire marshall eyebrow raising #'s. In an ajacent room one of the old timers that work there was saying it was like that since Friday evening.
I was in Academy Sporting Goods in Mesquite this morning. No ARs of any type on the shelf. Some guy next to me asked where they were. The sales clerk said that they had been told to pull them from display. Looks like they have joined Dick's.
Commander wrote:I was in Academy Sporting Goods in Mesquite this morning. No ARs of any type on the shelf. Some guy next to me asked where they were. The sales clerk said that they had been told to pull them from display. Looks like they have joined Dick's.
May have something to do with the fact that they walked a guy out of the store with a bushmaster before he was cleared by NICS. Confusion between 2 employees, I mean former employees. The guy was delayed by NICS. They didn't figure it out until the guy was gone. Will be interesting to see how that one plays out.
I was amazed that the employees were discussing this while customers standing there staring at them in disbelief.
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Pulling AR's off the shelves as "A Show Of Respect" is an empty gesture.
How many analogies do we need to get across the fact that such efforts imply guns are bad?
C'mon, you that buy into this notion, do you really want to hand the illogical anti-gun folk, the belt they can whip you with? Rolling over on your stomach and exposing your throat isn't going to win them over. Quite the contrary, they'll see it as us gun folk finally admitting how wrong we are.
Your sympathy is misguided and ultimately harmful...
Abraham wrote:Pulling AR's off the shelves as "A Show Of Respect" is an empty gesture.
How many analogies do we need to get across the fact that such efforts imply guns are bad?
C'mon, you that buy into this notion, do you really want to hand the illogical anti-gun folk, the belt they can whip you with? Rolling over on your stomach and exposing your throat isn't going to win them over. Quite the contrary, they'll see it as us gun folk finally admitting how wrong we are.
Your sympathy is misguided and ultimately harmful...
I think I agree with you. Them gun-grabber bums are really starting to irritate me (especially that talking head Brit, Piers Morgan). They aught to be forced to claw for every inch they get, and we all need to do our best to keep them from even getting that much.
Commander wrote:I was in Academy Sporting Goods in Mesquite this morning. No ARs of any type on the shelf. Some guy next to me asked where they were. The sales clerk said that they had been told to pull them from display. Looks like they have joined Dick's.
For the moment they have been pulled from display, but they still have them available. I purchased a Sig AR15 when my local Academy opened this morning. They had received 10 AR variants on their truck. I was #4 in line at 7:00AM and purchased the last one.
They are not price gouging, and prices are only slightly higher than they were 6 months ago.
The honest truth is I probably didn't need another one, can't really afford it, but don't know what the future holds.
